No luck running in WINE (Recent Ubuntu on x86_64):
Is this a debug build or something? Why would it require Visual C++?
Going to see if we can figure that out, thanks for letting us know! I'll reply again once we have an idea of why you got that error.
Should be a production build, I think UE still needs msvc at runtime? Maybe we could include it in our build...
It looks like it's just a basic Perquisite to running Unreal Games, and the reason it asked is because when packaging it offers to build those installers in by default.